Finally got around to updating some of my Firefox plugins, and noticed a neat new enhancement to the Google toolbar. When you’re typing in the search bar, they added a ‘suggest’ feature (where it finishes words and complete search phrases for you), and even better (since suggest isn’t really new), is it shows you the number of results. (googlebar image) Even though there is a google search bar built in to Firefox, I still really like the toolbar. Notably, I use the "search this site" button a lot. Even when sites do have a search function, Google often just provides better results. Pagerank display is good, and the highlight function (that will highlight search terms on the page) is really nice on long pages. If you haven’t tried it before, I do recommend installing the google bar for a few days. It does take up some screen real-estate, but I think it’s worth it.

It finally happened. I created a blog. What in the heck am I doing..? Well I figured that I will post some stuff here randomly. Why not? See what this whole blogging this is all about. I feel like I’m missing out. Now I can click those "blog this" links, and "trackbacks" become useful I guess. Well, we’ll see. I’ll more likely use this as a place to put various ideas, geeky computer solutions and hacks I come up with, and who knows what else. In my job, doing IT, software development on far too many projects, network and server administration, and everything else, I often do a bunch of research into a wide variety of topics to come up with specific solutions to problems or provide a new service, and I really don’t have any place to post stuff like that. Now maybe I’ll do that here. Of course, I may also just ignore this, and never post here again.. haha.